"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

Archive Of Today's Thoughts

Mar 18, 2018:"If you spend your life waiting for a chance, you are spending your chance waiting."Mar 17, 2018:"The trouble with letting trivial things ruin your life is that they keep getting more trivial."Mar 16, 2018:"All I ask, if they start investigating my finances, is to let me know if they find any."Mar 15, 2018:"Love is a decision you might wisely reconsider, if it were a decision, and you could reconsider it, and you were likely to be any wiser."Mar 14, 2018:

"Imagine, in the first winter, the odds you could have gotten against the first spring."

Mar 13, 2018:

"It is perhaps unfair to hold against someone the very thing that attracted us to them in the first place."

Mar 12, 2018:

"There is no fonder memory of anyone than of the things that made them happy."

Mar 11, 2018:

"We all want to be liked, often mistaken for wanting to be understood."

Mar10, 2018:

"The best evidence that you're doing the right thing is that it isn't easy."

Mar 9, 2018:

"There are things happening today that don't make sense, and you dread the sense they would make if they did."

Mar 8, 2018:

"I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned of they aren't fall chores, after all."

Mar 7, 2017:

"The best things in life are not only free, they take less trunk space."

Mar 6, 2018:

"It is only when we have a child we cannot love enough that we realize why our parents loved us too much."Mar 5, 2018:The conclusion, "Nobody cares," is always based on an insufficient sampling.

Mar 4, 2018:"The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions."Mar 3, 2018:"Before you discourage a child, recall your own childhood and consider what damage to your self-confidence you now believe was temporary."

Mar 2, 2018:"Sometimes I wonder -- maybe faith is what you get when you appeal to reason and accept its answer."Mar 1, 2018:"As a rule of thumb, the more abusive your adversary, the more likely you have the right adversary."Feb 28, 2018:When truth, logic and common sense are all against you, about all you can do is cry "Conspiracy!"Feb 27, 2018:"It is futile to blame our unhappiness on someone who doesn't care, and so we blame it on someone who does."Feb 26, 2018:"In a world of self-confident bluster, do not underestimate the sexiness of being quiet and unassuming and, at times, seeming a little lost."Feb 25, 2018:"How do you find love? You just keep showing a brave face to the world, and one day it melts someone's heart."

Feb 24 2018:"Shall I subtract each day of my life from some imaginary allotment of days left? No, on the contrary, I shall add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived, and each day my treasure will grow, not diminish."

Feb 23, 2018:

Despite all the new safety alerts in cars, nothing has ever replaced someone in the passenger's seat shouting, "Dear God!"Feb 22, 2018:"Most often the person for whom we would climb any mountain and swim any sea would settle for a little conversation at dinner."Feb 21, 2018:"We tend to cherish the things for which we have sacrificed, none more than the lie for which we sacrificed the truth."Feb 20, 2018:"If the good Lord had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses."Feb 19, 2018:"Nothing we feel entitled to ever comes to us in sufficient abundance to make us happy."

Feb 18, 2018:"Beware a belief that has long withstood the test of not being challenged."Feb 17, 2018:"A partial action is better than a full intention."Feb 16, 2018:"I would rather be mortal and know that death is inescapable than be immortal and know that life is inescapable. "Feb 15, 2018:"We don't get to choose happiness over sorrow. We get to choose a full life over an empty one -- and take what it brings."Feb 14, 2018:"Some say that true love is a mirage. Seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert."Feb 13, 2018:"We are, each of us, a private soul hiding behind a public mask, complaining that our public mask gets no understanding."Feb 12, 2018:"To achieve great success, you must not only ignore your critics, you must ignore friends telling you you're doing the best you can."Feb 11, 2018:"A good part of leadership is interpreting blank looks as agreement."Feb 10, 2018:"Eventually you realize that nothing that benefits you and you alone benefits anyone,"

Feb 9, 2018:"Never mind what the world expects of you. It is too low a standard to be concerned about."Feb 8, 2018:"Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there was a briefing you missed?"

Feb 7, 2018:"Raising kids is a series of mistakes that it is critical to make at the recommended age."Feb 6, 2018:"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" -- a reason, every so often, to break it.Feb 5, 2018:"The attraction of a lie is that it invites us into an exclusive club, whereas the truth welcomes all."Feb 4, 2018:"A relationship is in trouble not when the passion goes but when the everyday courtesies go."

Feb 3, 2018:"They are Godseekers both, the churchgoing believer and the pilgrim to an unknown shrine."Feb 2, 2018:"One rule I try to follow is to never say anything in public that I am hearing for the first time."Feb 1, 2018:"Politics is always about what to do when the right thing to do is a non-starter."Dec 17, 2017:"What I remember most fondly about childhood is that there were explanations for things -- and they were fascinating."Dec 16, 2017:"Today let us acknowledge all the jobs that magically do themselves -- and the women who do them."Dec 15, 2017:"It's nice to know the definition of love, but it's probably more important to know the definition of partner."Dec 14, 2017:"Sweeter than any success is having someone you can't wait to tell about it."Dec 13, 2017:"Essential to happiness, I believe, is the ability to discard your regrets once they have served their purpose."Dec 12, 2017:"You can wait for a miracle, but it's generally a better strategy to meet it halfway."

Dec 11, 2017:"Shall I sit in a sunlit present, recalling a moonlit past, or shall I envision a starlit future?"Dec 10, 2017:"To grow old with a loving companion is to outlive all your regrets."Dec 9, 2017:"If you will keep your eyes open for it, there is always some gosh darn thing that will restore your faith."Dec 8, 2017:"If it makes you feel more like a fool than a saint, then you probably did the right thing."Dec 7, 2017:"You don't become beautiful in someone's eyes by being beautiful but by finding the someone."

Dec 6, 2017:"If a wedding were a sales agreement, marriage would be in the fine print."Dec 5, 2017:"The worst thing about reacting to slights and snubs is not that it magnifies trivial things but that it enlarges small people."Dec 4, 2017:"In the end we're the person we pretend to be. It is the person we thought was pretending who only existed in our mind."Dec 3, 2017:"Never explain -- until you meet that one special person who understands your inner soul, and then, well, God help them."Dec 2, 2017:"There are days I like to devote to things that don't require any action on my part."Dec 1, 2017:"There are many reasons to marry, marrying for marriage being the most prudent."Nov 26, 2017:"In an age when manners and civility have gone the way of dressing for dinner, you begin to understand why people dressed for dinner."Nov 25, 2017:"There is a child in every one of us, not always accompanied by an adult."Nov 24, 2017:"We live in unusual times. There has always been hypocrisy, but rarely does it come out of hiding and parade down Main Street."Nov 23, 2017:"Lord, we gather as a family to thank Thee for all Thy blessings, most especially for making us this family and granting us this gathering."Nov 22, 2017:"A Happy Thanksgiving to all, especially to grandmother, be she the welcoming host, or the honored guest, or the treasured memory."Nov 21, 2017:"You wonder if somewhere on Thanksgiving Day there is a gathering of the departed where they raise a glass to those left behind."Nov 20, 2017:"So often the search for happiness takes you down a familiar street to an old address."Nov 19, 2017:"In a day and age when all manner of things are believed against contrary evidence -- hey, why not believe there's a little good in everyone."Nov 18, 2017:"Nothing today is so little appreciated as the moral character it takes to be a normal, everyday person."Nov 17, 2017:"A question to ask, as parent or teacher, is whether a child who never won your approval ever knew it was available."

Nov 16, 2017:"I would tell you the secret to success if I knew what part of getting up, dressed and out the door were a secret."Nov 15, 2017:"We complain that life is not easy. But did we pray for an easy life, or did we pray for happiness and fulfillment -- and did we suppose it would be easy?"Nov 14, 2017:"To be true to one another is not merely a promise. There are times in a marriage when it's your only plan."Nov 13, 2017:"So often the person in our lives who most needs a little empathy from us is that figure in the mirror."Nov 12, 2017:"I have been blessed in life -- in a way that has left me never doubting the moments in Scripture when an angel appears."

Nov 11, 2017:"Destiny -- a foreordained event, as when two raindrops, flung from the heavens, merge on a window pane."Nov 10, 2017:"There is hope for a country whose veterans still wave its flag and wear with pride its badges of honor."

Nov 9, 2017:"Anger, sorrow, resentment -- there are a thousand different names for a little time that needs to go by."Nov 8, 2017:"We are taught to be wary of our happiness, as if it had some devious, ulterior motive. My advice? Do what makes you happy -- and trust in your happiness."Nov 7, 2017:"Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life. All other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it."Nov 6, 2017:The problem with settling for "good enough" is that it's so hard to distinguish it from "almost good enough."Nov 5, 2017:"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a yearly salary increase."Nov 4, 2017:"There is a difference between denying reality and avoiding it whenever possible."Nov 3 2017:"The trick to succeeding is to stop thinking there's a trick to everything."

Nov 2, 2017:"If there's an accusation most of us are guilty of, it is that we are trying to protect someone."Nov 1, 2017:"I believe there's a destiny that brings two people together -- but not for the purpose of making anything easier."Oct 31, 2017:"There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch."Oct 30, 2017:"There's a moment in life when you discover it's not all about you, usually when you meet the person it's all about."Oct 29, 2017:"A toast today to all the invisible people doing jobs mysteriously getting done."Oct 28, 2017:"One day, in your search for happiness, you find a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search."

Oct 27, 2017:"What a clever liar eventually learns is that telling the truth would have been more clever."Oct 26, 2017:"It is the worst trade we make in life -- who we are for what we want."Oct 25, 2017:"Sometimes people get the wrong impression about us because that is the one we keep making."Oct 24, 2017:"The problem with leaving behind a wasted planet is figuring out how to leave it behind."Oct 23, 2017:"Life is a series of experiences that make you an expert on what is best for someone else."Oct 22, 2017:"In times of distrust and division, a friendly smile is more than a gesture of civility -- it is a small protest."Oct 21, 2017:"The challenge of virtue is that it requires commitment, whereas evil is always offered as a free trial."Oct 20, 2017:"It is a rare blessing -- the love that stands in your shadow and considers it shade."Oct 19, 2017:"May you have the respect you earn, the gratitude you deserve and the love that leaves you wondering how you could have been so lucky."Oct 18, 2017:"I nod to a stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two people go off feeling a little less anonymous."Oct 17, 2017:"I am never two minutes into removing the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life."Oct 16, 2017:"There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries."Oct 15, 2017:I always wonder, when someone tells me, "You know better than that," what I ever did to make them think so.

Oct 14, 2017:Generally it's a good idea not to say "I love you" if there's something you don't mean by it.Oct 13, 2017:"I reject the notion that just because you call it reality, it doesn't have to meet some minimum standard."Oct 12, 2017:"So often when people tell you you must accept reality, it's not the same reality they accepted."

Oct 11, 2017:"Ever wonder what might be achieved if climbing the management ladder and managing something were the same skill?"

Oct 10, 2017:"I love you" -- if you've said it once, you've said it a thousand times. But did you actually say it once?Oct 9, 2017:"One reason to learn from history is that it's such a good example of what happens if you don't."

Oct 8, 2017:"The great thing about working in the arts is that every completed work leaves you a chance to try again what you had in mind."Oct 4, 2017:"If you don't learn from the past, you aren't likely to learn from the present, either."

Oct 3, 2017:"If at first you don't succeed, you at least find out who your friends are."Oct 2, 2017:"Sometimes the best exercise of good judgment is knowing when to withhold your better judgment."

Oct 1, 2017:"It is no secret but worth repeating. At the core of all prejudice is self-loathing. At the heart of all compassion is self esteem."Sep 30, 2017:"We are never too old, but we are always too young to realize it."Sep 29, 2017:"I am less motivated by people urging me to do the right thing than by people assuming I will."

Sep 28, 2017:"You can live in an unfair world, feeling that somehow you deserve it, until one day you meet someone who clearly doesn't."Sep 27, 2017:"Those who warn of temptation rearing its ugly head have obviously never seen temptation."Sep 26, 2017:"If I chase a hopeless dream, it is because I have found it the best way to meet hopeful people."Sep 25, 2017:Another night, another "Why?"I shout into the starry skyTo echo as a fading cryAcross the reach of no reply.Sep 24, 2017:"You cannot return to a time, but sometimes, together, you can return to a beginning."

Sep 23, 2017:

"The enemy of great dreams is not so much the cynic as the small dreamer."Sep 22, 2017:"Do not spend your life seeking security and then wonder why you never found happiness."Sep 21, 2017:"Hope is not a plan, but without it, nothing else is a plan, either."Sep 20, 2017:"You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose, or you can decide today to choose them."Sep 19, 2017:"Another thing you can learn from your dog is when to go lie under the dining room table and await developments."Sep 18, 2017:"I am accused of favoring dogs over people when, in fact, I favor whoever comes running when I whistle."Sep 17, 2017:"To be a parent is to feel that when something bad happens to you and you alone, it has taken the decoy."Sep 16, 2017:"To know the innermost thoughts of anyone is to know the innermost thoughts of everyone."Sep 15, 2017:

"Once you see yourself as a victim of circumstances, it is possible to find a circumstance in just about anything."

Sep 14, 2017:

"You can be sure that the person who disparages others in your presence disparages you in their presence."

Sep 13, 2017:

"It is rare that two people can remember what they were searching for when they found each other."

Sep 12, 2017:

"We can be all in this together or all in this apart, but make no mistake, we're all in this."

Sep 11, 2017:

"In every relationship there are situations you need to talk through -- and situations where you need to be through talking."

Sep 10, 2017:

"Never mind that your actions seem hopeless. Act anyway, for you have a greater ability to act than to judge hopelessness."

Sep 9, 2017:

"There is a final stage in the relaxation of morals where everything is offensive, but it doesn't offend anyone."

Sep 8, 2017:

"The heart has its reasons, and they aren't debate topics."

Sep 7, 2017:

"Sometimes love is just a comfort in each other's presence that shows up as long silences on the interstate."

Sep 6, 2017:

"The most deserving cries for help are never heard, because they are never uttered."

Sep 5, 2017:

"How, child, do I know where you're headed? Because I'm there, and I can see you coming."

Sep 4, 2017:

"Life is too short to spend it wishing you could live it over again."Sep 3, 2017:"There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar."Sep 2, 2017:"Do things while you can and while they matter to you, because neither is a permanent state of affairs."Sep 1, 2017:"Perseverance is not by itself a plan, unless, of course, all other parts of the plan have failed."

Aug 26, 2017:

"It is possible to live a simple, uncomplicated life, but we usually call it by a different name. We call it loneliness."Aug 25, 2017:"There are times when happiness needs less to be pursued than welcomed."

Aug 24, 2017:"Though you lose all hope, there is still hope -- and it loves to surprise."Aug 23, 2017:"You get to an age when no matter what happens, you wish someone would put a stop to it."Aug 22, 2017:"It is not unreasonable to have faith in that which is necessary for your happiness."Aug 21, 2017:"As a dispenser of goods and services, government is a vending machine that swallows every other quarter."Aug 20, 2017:"Life is a series of adult choices, most of which life will try to get you to make before age 21."Aug 19, 2017:Never ask, "Did I do the best I could?" without allowing for the possibility that you did.

Aug 18, 2017:"Another day, another chance that the happiness you don't dare to seek will wander into your comfort zone."Aug 17, 2017:"Just as darkness is the absence of light, ignorance is the absence of knowledge, and should not be mistaken for a point of view."

Aug 16, 2017:

"Do I believe in miracles? Let me put it this way -- I believe in miracle workers."Aug 15, 2017:"So often the idea that something's stopping you is an obstacle illusion."Aug 14, 2017:"Pure evil does not promote itself as evil but as purity."Jul 31, 2017:"The challenge of caring only about yourself is to find sufficient motive."Jul 30, 2017:"Just when you think you've lost all interest in life, you lose a coin in a vending machine."Jul 29, 2017:"Occasionally it's good to devote a day to something in your life that's perfect but needs a little attention to stay that way." Jul 28, 2017:"Good always has opportunity. We need to give it motive. Evil always has motive. We need to deny it opportunity."Jul 27, 2017:"Just when you think you don't care, you meet some kid who thinks nobody cares."Jul 26, 2017:"The trouble with planning to repent on your deathbed is having to backpack the deathbed wherever you go." Jul 25, 2017:"One does not grow wiser by knowing more but by becoming less certain." Jul 24, 2017:There are people who never say, "In my opinion..." They say, "The reality is..." when the reality is, it's their opinion.Jul 23, 2017:"All we know about the universe is that it began as a swirling pool of hot gas that, as it cooled, began spinning off moral dilemmas."Jul 22, 2017:"I have nothing against the human race. I just think there are better role models for our children."Jul 21, 2017:"Why would you bring a child into this world? Because there is no other world and because your child has no other way into it."Jul 20, 2017:"It is unlikely that any of us was born in order to find out what someone else would do in our shoes."Jun 20, 2017:"I have never understood the purpose of hate, or how you know the purpose has been accomplished, and you can stop."Jun 19, 2017:"Every lie has a reason, the reason also a lie."Jun 18, 2017:"One perception you nearly always have wrong is that someone else would be better off if you weren't around."Jun 17, 2017:"Whatever it is, it is better to discover it yourself than have it brought to your attention."Jun 16, 2017:"No one is indispensable. You live, you die, and everything you thought was your fault goes right on happening."

Jun 15, 2017:"I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far."Jun 14, 2017:"I dunno, you get to a point in life where you'd settle for life, liberty and the pursuit of can't complain."Jun 13, 2017:"Failure is a lesson that has a moral to teach -- if you will focus less on the lesson and more on the moral."

Jun 12, 2017:"So often we choose to continue the life we know, only to discover that it was not one of the choices.."Jun 11, 2017:"There is no more important leadership skill than the ability to interpret blank looks as agreement."Jun 10, 2017:"It takes courage to risk a chance. It takes heroism to risk the inevitable consequence."

Jun 9, 2017:"You have to pay the price for success. It is a difficult thing to shoplift."Jun 8, 2017:"Alas, by the time Fate caught up to my life, Chance had it all planned."Jun 7, 2017:"Evidence suggests that every life form on earth was given the choice of intelligence or perfection -- and all but one chose perfection."Jun 6, 2017:"I don't know if I ever met a certified fool, but I've met a few folks whose applications would be given serious consideration."Jun 5, 2017:"The battle of good versus evil would be easier if evil would take a turn being the virtue."Jun 4, 2017:"You can be a caring person or nobody's fool. It is a difficult thing to be both."

Jun 3, 2017:"On the one hand, I'd like to expect the best of every human being I meet. On the other hand, that would make me a cocker spaniel."Jun 2, 2017:"Once there was a grain of sand that wanted to become a beach, an example of how you can't always do it all by yourself."

Jun 1, 2017:"Mostly what you learn from experience is that it would have better to learn from somebody else's."May 31, 2017:"Those who warn of temptation rearing its ugly head obviously haven't seen temptation."May 30, 2017:"Never lose hope, because miracles happen, and they need something to work with."

May 29, 2017:"I have never wished for more hours in the day, twenty-four being more than I have time for as it is."May 28, 2017:"The first requirement in taking a step in the right direction is to take a step in some direction." May 27, 2017:"Sometimes you need a missionary's faith, which is to say, a belief in the cumulative impact of actions that are all but hopeless." May 26, 2017:"The hardest thing about making a difference is that it's never clear that you are." May 25, 2017:"A nod, a smile, a pleasant hello -- they aren't anything. And that's the point -- a little civility doesn't take anything." May 24, 2017:Yes, I've been accused of wasting my time, to which I reply, "Whose time did you say that was again?" May 23, 2017:"There is no actual law that says you cannot get locked into a daily routine that makes you happy." May 22, 2017:"The great thing about advocating for animals is that it takes so little to satisfy your base constituency." May 21, 2017:"If you could apply for a life of ease, what would you state as the purpose of your request?"

May 20, 2017:"Life is too short to care what people think of you who never do." May 19, 2017:"The thing about people who understand you is that when they die, you can still visit them, and they still understand you."May 18, 2017:"We try to raise kids secure in our love and certain of their next meal, which, let's face it, doesn't leave much to negotiate with." May 17, 2017:"No human being is anyone else's punishment or reward." May 16, 2017:"Occasionally it's good to reassess those of your friendships in which you are the only participating friend."May 15, 2017:"Better to spend your time foolishly than to let it expire unused.".May 14, 2017:Whenever I see a lost soul and think, "There but for the grace of God go I," I realize that the grace of God was my mom.

May 13, 2017:"There is exactly as much wealth as there are fair shares. If someone has less than their fair share, someone else has more."

May 12, 2017:"Once there was a couple who parted to go their separate ways only to discover that they didn't have any ways that were separate."May 11, 2017:"If all sins were forgivable, we wouldn't need forgiveness. If everyone deserved mercy, we wouldn't need mercy."May 10, 2017:"The thing to realize about your prejudices is that they love to pose as your principles."May 9, 2017:"There are times in a relationship when the band plays, but mostly you dance to a remembered tune."May 8, 2017:"Let me put it this way -- I'm at the stage of life where no recent photograph of myself is recent enough."May 7, 2017:"Life is an educational process you can't drop out of -- you either learn the lesson or you become the lesson."

May 6, 2017:"If you can't find God in 2 + 2 = 4, you won't find Him in E = MC squared, either."May 5, 2017:"Is it surprising that a generation that does not value marriage does not value compromise, generally?"May 4, 2017:"It is a sad lament -- the happiness you might have found if you had taken the path that still lies right there in front of you."May 3, 2017:"Who would not be a little dishonest if there were such a thing as a little dishonesty."May 2, 2017:"There is a state of denial called hope which I prefer to the state of denial called despair."May 1, 2017:"To be accepted for the person one pretends to be is all the understanding most people want."Apr 30, 2017:"The challenges of life would seem less daunting if we knew how daunting life can become without challenge."Apr 29, 2017:"If only mankind could start all over again -- and this time try it as womankind."Apr 28, 2017:"A simple rule -- never let anything that doesn't matter to you ruin something that does."Apr 27, 2017:"What does the devil want with your soul? He wants to see what you'll pay to get it back."Apr 26, 2017:"Wouldn't it be cool if time traveled backwards, and everyone who was late had to wait around for everyone who was on time?"

Apr 25, 2017:

"The punctual have this in common with the chronically-late -- they run into exactly the same unexpected delays."Apr 24, 2017:"Sometimes Fate dilly-dallies in bringing two people together, and their guardian angels have to see to it."Apr 23, 2017:"Nothing makes a better first impression on me like some small visible evidence that you would like to."

Apr 22, 2017:"The most common excuse of people who waited until the last minute is that something came up at the last minute."Apr 21, 2017:"The trouble with caring only about yourself is that it so often leads to not caring about anyone."Apr 20, 2017:"There are times when you don't need a miracle, but you definitely need something unknown to science."Apr 19, 2017:"Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify."

Apr 18, 2017:"Not everything unknown to science is unknown to possibility."Apr 17, 2017:"Sometimes, to find the silver lining, you have to realize that it's not all about you."Apr 16, 2017:"There are reasons why no one could ever love you, and you can be sure your lover knows them all."Apr 15, 2017:"Be happy and a reason will come along."Apr 14, 2017:"If you are not on your guard, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes."

Apr 13, 2017:"The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope -- or at least give it the weekend."Apr 12, 2017:"I dunno -- seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there."

Apr 11, 2017:"Yes, there are people who might ruin my day -- if they were on the list of people I will let ruin my day."Apr 10, 2017:"Today is one of those spring days when your black mood seems an affront to the blue sky."Apr 9, 2017:"Remember that a hopeless situation is only a situation -- you are the one supplying the hopelessness."Apr 8, 2017:"There are Seven Deadly Sins, of which, so far, only Envy and Greed have organized politically."Apr 7, 2017:"It is not necessary that a good thing become a better thing. Sometimes you just have to let a good thing be a good thing."

Apr 6, 2017:"There are times when you just need to park your better judgment and listen to your better angels."Apr 5, 2017:"Do not expect the whole truth from those who have never told you the whole lie."

Apr 4, 2017:"What good is a moral code that causes you to regret but never causes you to reconsider?"Apr 3, 2017:"In the end you don't need to know what love is. You just need to know that certain people are safe from harm."Apr 2, 2017:"The mark of a clever conspiracy is that the people it conspires against think they are part of it."Apr 1, 2017:"You know something's wrong with the system when you find yourself begging for justice as if it were mercy."Mar 31, 2017:"Whatever you're trying to prove, it's good, occasionally, to spend a day not trying to prove it."

Mar 30, 2017:"You can call it betrayal -- or you can understand that true love makes impossible promises."Mar 29, 2017:"Most of human progress is owed to people who refused to admit to themselves what everyone else already knew."Mar 28, 2017:"Optimism is the knack of not letting every conceivable thing that could ruin your life ruin your day."

Mar 27, 2017:"You have to let trivial things make you happy. You can't count on the important things."Mar 26, 2017:"Never let something ruin your life that wouldn't matter to you otherwise."Mar 25, 2017:"A lasting relationship can be owed to Fate or Chance, but more often it is owed to Second Chance."

Mar 23, 2017:"All I know about the odds is that they're always against you if you never take the chance."Mar 22, 2017:"You can't predict everything that will happen, but if you know a little history, you can predict a few things that will happen again."Mar 21, 2017:"Say what you want about marriage, it's still the best-known cure for unnecessary conversation."Mar 20, 2017:"You're born, you die, and in between you try not to get involved. Good luck with that."Mar 19, 2017:"There are things I regret not because I'm to blame but because they're regrettable and no one else is regretting them."

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